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In this article we identify security threats and requirements for software agent systems in the context of an electronic market. A short description of our own agent system AMETAS is given. It provides an infrastructure for a general multi-purpose agent system. We explain which security facilities need to be employed and how some of them were implemented in AMETAS.
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Zapf, M., Müller, H., Geihs, K. (1998). Security requirements for mobile agents in electronic markets. In: Lamersdorf, W., Merz, M. (eds) Trends in Distributed Systems for Electronic Commerce. TREC 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1402. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053412
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